The Lost Continent

words removed
38,168
marks left
5,713
words a sentence
19.4
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The Warlord of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs. More twins

Edgar Rice Burroughs on the shelf

9 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Edgar Rice Burroughs as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Rice Burroughs's punctuation is closest to H. G. Wells's.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's average fingerprint

Edgar Rice Burroughs on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEdgar Rice Burroughs's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.54.27.2
Commas66.754.976.6
Colons0.30.41.6
Exclamation marks2.42.42.8
Question marks2.82.83.7
Words per sentence19.420.717.0
Dialogue11%19%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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